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- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening Quotes
Lessons that grow slower than we'd like.
These lines treat the garden as a teacher of restraint - asking how much tending is actually enough, and noting that too much outside help can loosen a person's own claim on the work. Related ideas continue in our Garden collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
To dwell is to garden.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
- Nov 07, 2020
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020